Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to reports that the Biden admin is considering a partnership with private firms to track extremist chatter.
Categories: Police State/Civil Liberties, Science and Technology
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to reports that the Biden admin is considering a partnership with private firms to track extremist chatter.
Categories: Police State/Civil Liberties, Science and Technology
I strongly suspect that if these “Big Tech” firms start acting as agents of the Federal Government, they will lose the various First Amendment immunities they expect to get as “private companies”.
COINTELPRO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO#:~:text=COINTELPRO%20(syllabic%20abbreviation%20derived%20from,disrupting%20domestic%20American%20political%20organizations.
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